Investment Law Sample Clauses

Investment Law international investment law has strong ties to the customary law on inju- xxxx to aliens.69 This may explain why, unlike in human rights law, where the concept of positive obligations was developed over time, the duty to protect was present in investment law from the moment that states began concluding agreements on the subject.70 Many, if not most, of these agree- ments stipulate the obligation of the host state to ensure the (full) protection 64 iACtHR, Mapiripán Massacre v. Colombia, Merits, Reparations and Costs, Judgment of 15 September 2005, Series C, No. 134, Separate Opinion of Judge Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, para. 7. 65 Ibid., para. 6. 66 See L. Burgorgue-Xxxxxx & X. Xxxxx xx Xxxxxx, The Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Case Law and Commentary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 257, noting that the only exception is iACtHR, Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxxxxx v. Chile, Merits, Reparations and Costs, Judg- ment of 22 November 2005, Series C, No. 135. 67 See x.x. xXXxXX, Moiwana Community v. Suriname, Preliminary Objections, Merits, Repa- rations and Costs, Judgment of 15 June 2005, Series C, No. 124, Concurring Opinion of Judge Xxxxxx-Xxxxxxx, xxxxx. 3-5. 68 Human Rights Council, Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, Xxxx Xxxxxx, 19 February 2007, UN Doc. A/HRC/4/35, para. 10. 69 See e.g. E. De Brabandere, ‘Host States’ Due Diligence Obligations in international investment Law’ (2015) 42 Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce 319, at 328. 70 Even before states began concluding investment agreements specifically (or free trade agreements with investment chapters), they often concluded so-called ‘friendship, navigation and commerce’ (FCN) treaties. Such a treaty formed the basis of Elettronica Sicula S.p.A. (XXXX) (United States of America v. italy), Judgment of 20 July 1989, 1989 iCJ Reports 15, in which the iCJ confirmed italy’s duty to protect a production plant based on similar treaty language, in paras. 102-112. and security of investments.71 Equally importantly, the agreements have enabled investors to bring claims directly against the host state, without needing to resort to the diplomatic protection of their home state. Jurisprudence resulting from investor-state dispute settlement has confirmed the duty to provide full protection and security, as well as its link to the law on injuries to aliens. in one of the earliest investment...
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  • Investment Limits In the performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement, Subadviser shall act in conformity with applicable limits and requirements, as amended from time to time, as set forth in the (A) Fund's Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information ("SAI"); (B) instructions and directions of AEFC and of the Board; (C) requirements of the 1940 Act, the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, as applicable to the Fund, and all other applicable federal and state laws and regulations; and (D) the procedures and standards set forth in, or established in accordance with, the Advisory Agreement.

  • Investment Limitation The Company shall not invest, or otherwise use the proceeds received by the Company from its sale of the Shares in such a manner as would require the Company or any of its subsidiaries to register as an investment company under the Investment Company Act.

  • Investment Limitations If the Custodian has otherwise complied with the terms and conditions of this Agreement in performing its duties generally, and more particularly in connection with the purchase, sale or exchange of securities made by or for a Portfolio, the Custodian shall not be liable to the applicable Fund and such Fund agrees to indemnify the Custodian and its nominees, for any loss, damage or expense suffered or incurred by the Custodian and its nominees arising out of any violation of any investment or other limitation to which such Fund is subject.

  • Investment Advisers Act The Manager is not prohibited by the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended, or the rules and regulations thereunder, from performing its obligations under the Management Agreement as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

  • Investment Adviser The Buyer is an investment adviser registered under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.

  • Investment Adviser Status The Investment Adviser is duly registered and in good standing with the Commission as an investment adviser under the Advisers Act, and is not prohibited by the Advisers Act, the 1940 Act, the Rules and Regulations or the Advisers Act Rules and Regulations, from acting under the Investment Management Agreement as contemplated by the Registration Statement, each preliminary prospectus and the Prospectus.

  • Investment Adviser and Investment Sub-Adviser The Trustees may in their discretion, from time to time, enter into an investment advisory or management contract or contracts with respect to the Trust or any Series whereby the other party or parties to such contract or contracts shall undertake to furnish the Trust with such management, investment advisory, statistical and research facilities and services and such other facilities and services, if any, and all upon such terms and conditions, as the Trustees may in their discretion determine. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Trust Instrument, the Trustees may authorize any investment adviser (subject to such general or specific instructions as the Trustees may from time to time adopt) to effect purchases, sales or exchanges of portfolio securities, other investment instruments of the Trust, or other Trust Property on behalf of the Trustees, or may authorize any officer, employee, agent, or Trustee to effect such purchases, sales or exchanges pursuant to recommendations of the investment adviser (and all without further action by the Trustees). Any such purchases, sales and exchanges shall be deemed to have been authorized by the Trustees. The Trustees may authorize, subject to applicable requirements of the 1940 Act, the investment adviser to employ, from time to time, one or more sub-advisers to perform such of the acts and services of the investment adviser, and upon such terms and conditions, as may be agreed upon between the investment adviser and sub-adviser. Any reference in this Trust Instrument to the investment adviser shall be deemed to include such sub-advisers, unless the context otherwise requires.

  • Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act (a) The Borrower is not engaged and will not engage, principally or as one of its important activities, in the business of purchasing or carrying margin stock (within the meaning of Regulation U issued by the FRB), or extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock. (b) None of the Borrower, any Person Controlling the Borrower, or any Subsidiary is or is required to be registered as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act of 1940.

  • Investment Company Act The Company will conduct its affairs in such a manner so as to reasonably ensure that neither it nor its subsidiaries will be or become, at any time prior to the termination of this Agreement, an “investment company,” as such term is defined in the Investment Company Act, assuming no change in the Commission’s current interpretation as to entities that are not considered an investment company.

  • Regulated Investment Company The Company has elected to be treated, and has operated, and intends to continue to operate, its business in such a manner so as to enable the Company to continue to qualify as a regulated investment company under Subchapter M of the Code. The Company intends to direct the investment of the proceeds of the offering of the Securities in such a manner as to comply with the requirements of Subchapter M of the Code.

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